brain research initiative

Nearly one in five of us boomers will develop Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia in our lifetime. If that’s not scary enough, researchers have put a staggering figure on the diseases’ financial burden. A new study published in the April 4 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine says dementia costs more than heart disease or even cancer – between $157 and $215 billion annually. And that was based on the prevalence of the disease in 2010, …